A study published in Current Biology by the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels ...

On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday frolic through your tales of delightful tech support encounters.… This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Val" who shared a ...

We take our understanding of where we are for granted, until we lose it. When we get lost in nature or a new city, our eyes and brains kick into gear, seeking familiar objects that tell us where we ...

Some dogs aren’t just good boys and girls — they’re geniuses. Certain pups can do more than recognize the names of their favorite chew toys — they can actually group their playthings by function, like ...

Jesse Singal, a journalist in New York City, is the author of “The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills” and cohost of the podcast “Blocked and Reported.” A longer version of this ...

We list the best free office software, to make it simple and easy to use a free alternative to Microsoft Word. However, over the years other companies have released rival office suites to help with ...

The ongoing investigation into anomalous flood control projects continues to affect even more people, with the latest being the country's architects. In one of the more recent posts on its official ...

BOSTON -- Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of ...

Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot Chat AI assistant directly into its core Microsoft 365 applications. Starting today, users of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote will find a new unified ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...

Microsoft has officially announced the rollout of Copilot Chat and agents inside the core Microsoft 365 apps, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The update offers a unified chat ...